Kuriakon - Infinity

"The unicorn has but one horn in the middle of its forehead. It is the only animal that ventures to attack the elephant; and so sharp is the nail of its foot, that with one blew it can rip the belly of that beast. Hunters can catch the unicorn only by placing a young virgin in its haunts. No sooner does he see the damsel, than he runs towards her, and lies down at her feet, and so suffers himself to be captured by the hunters. The unicorn represents Jesus Christ, who took on Him our nature in the virgin's womb, was betrayed to the Jews, and delivered into the hands of Pontius Pilate. Its one horn signifies the Gospel of Truth. ...''
-Le Bestiaire Divin de Guillaume, Clerc de Normandic (13th century).

Legend of the Weeping Willow Tree
Once upon a time ago there was a bow who came a calling on a maiden.

They courted one another and fell in love.

They always courted under a tree.

He was so in love with her that he wanted it to last forever.

He decided to go and look for the Holy Grail so their love could last forever.

He went off and started searching and left his maiden behind.

She was so taken by him and missed him when he left to find the Holy Grail.

When she started missing him, she would go sit under a that tree where they feel in love and cry for him to return to her.

The bow vowed not to return to her until his quest was complete. Every once and a while, he would return to the tree and lay a flower there for her to find to remind her of him.

She would go to the tree and wail into the night of a broken heart, crying for her true love to return to her.

She soon just cried herself to death. Mother nature came and saw her body surrounded by all her tears.

She wanted to honor the maiden for her devotion to her true love.

She took her spirit and filled the tree and the leaves and branches began to weep.

Some say that when you stand under a Weeping Willow on the right type of night, you will hear her wailing for her bow.

That is how it came to be a Crying Tree... Or... The Weeping Willow

{The First Hypertext Edition of The Dictionary of Phrase and Fable}
The Litany of the Blessed Virgin contains the prayer Sedes sapientae ora pro nobis, 'Seat of Wisdom, pray for us!' For St. Peter Chrysologos in his Sermon on the Annunciation had represented the Virgin as the seven - pillared temple whichWisdom (according to Proverbs 9) had built for herself.

So the meaning of the mediaeval allegory about the milk-white unicorn which could be captured only with the assistance of a pure virgin is now easily read.

The Unicorn is the Roe in the Thicket. It lodges under an apple-tree, the tree of immortality-through-wisdom.
Genesis of Eden

Holy Grail
The willow is also associated with the story of the Holy Grail. The story is an explanation of why the willow "weeps." The story has it that a young girl and her betrothed pledged love under the bows of the willow tree...

For many moons they were happy. The young lad, however, had dreams of glory and wanted to be worthy of the maiden's love.

He left his love to search for the Holy Grail, of which each could drink and be immortal. The lad vowed not to return until he completed his quest and could bring the Grail with him.

The girl promised to be true and wait for his return so that they may drink of the cup and live together forever.

Moons passed, and each night, the girl returned to the place beneath the willow bows to wait for her love to return from his quest. She wept with longing each night beneath the bows.

Sometimes the young man would visit the tree when the girl was not there and leave a gift or blossom to remind her of their love. Eventually the maiden wept herself to death.

Willow had seen all these events and felt pity for the maiden whose heart was true and whose love was so enduring.

She absorbed the spirit of the girl and her tears so that her beauty and love would endure forever.

The willow felt the sorrow of the girl and the love that filled her heart. The willow bowed and drew a curtain of her branches to protect the place.

That is why the willow weeps and bends its bows in sorrow and honor.
The White Willow History

Biblical
Deuteronomy 33:17 - His glory is like the firstling of his bullock, and his horns are like the horns of unicorns: with them he shall push the people together to the ends of the earth: and they are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and they are the thousands of Manasseh.

Psalms 22:21 - Save me from the lion's mouth: for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns.

Isaiah 34:7 - And the unicorns shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness.

Numbers 23:22 - God brought them out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn.

Numbers 24:8 - God brought him forth out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn: he shall eat up the nations his enemies, and shall break their bones, and pierce them through with his arrows.

Job 39:9 - Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or abide by thy crib?

Job 39:10 - Canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow? or will he harrow the valleys after thee?

Psalms 29:6 - He maketh them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young unicorn.

Psalms 92:10 - But my horn shalt thou exalt like the horn of an unicorn: I shall be anointed with fresh oil.

Daniel 8:5 - And as I was considering, behold, an he goat came from the west on the face of the whole earth, and touched not the ground: and the goat had a notable horn between his eyes.

• Horn: qeren {keh'-ren} AV - horn 75, hill 1; 76. From 7160 - 1) horn 1a) horn 1b) of strength (fig) 1c) flask (container for oil) 1d) horn (as musical instrument) 1e) horn (of horn-like projections on the altar) 1f) of rays of light 1g) hill

• 7160 qaran {kaw-ran'} a primitive root; AV - shine 3, has horns 1; 4 1) to shine 1a) (Qal) to send out rays